"He was, like, 10 feet away from us, wearing a white mask and carrying
something heavy with both hands," said Hannah Baggs, a freshman at LaSalle
High School.

The Oregonian's Rick Bella, the police reporter for Clackamas County, has been reporting on the story since the news broke Tuesday afternoon along with dozens of reporters, photographers and editors. The Oregonian is continuing its reporting on the shooting, the victims, the gunman and the police response.

Bella took a break from reporting to take readers' questions Wednesday afternoon. Here is their conversation.